Top billed cast

1. 

   Colin Friels

   Richard Devine / Rufus Dawes

2. 

   Anthony Perkins

   Reverend James North

3. 

   Patrick Macnee

   Major Vickers

4. 

   Samantha Eggar

   Mrs. Vickers

5. 

   Diane Cilento

   Lady Elinor Devine

6. 

   Rod Mullinar

   Lieutenant Maurice Frere

7. 

   Robert Coleby

   John Rex

8. 

   Susan Lyons

   Sarah

9. 

   Penelope Stewart

   Sylvia Vickers

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Season 1

1983 | 3 Episodes

In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
For the Term of His Natural Life

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• mutiny
• forced labour
• australia
• miniseries
• wrongful imprisonment
• convict
• penal colony
• literary adaptation
• tasmania
• disinheritance